Harrow Quotes

“I think the world is dying because we were dead to its astonishments pretty much. It’ll be around but it will become less and less until it’s finally compatible with our feelings for it.”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“He remembered the description in an old book of a phenomenon long since vanished from the world”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“Your empathies are obsolete. The battle’s over”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“But the ark was empty,” Lola said. “Myriad creatures were present but they were below the vessel”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“Cornea”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“People who lack all sympathy are feeling better about themselves. The more a person doesn’t care the freer he becomes. The new thinking is that compassion is nothing but self-cannibalization.” Gordon”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“It’s because they don’t believe in absolution”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“Do you know what civil death is”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“People are calm though,” he said. “If you’re not calm there’s immediate custody which is not pretty”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“A teacher at school said that the online world—he called it the online world—employs only the parts of the brain that handle temporary fleeting minutiae and bulks up that part so that deep thinking is impossible”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“The mega-technological fantasy of glorified and constant consumption in controlled and utopian worlds which prepare people psychologically for life in denatured artificial environments has never been more popular.”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“The bowlers, men and women both, were of that pastime’s typical bent—hefty, of a tribal disposition and with themselves well pleased. After they released the ball they held the afterward of their poses for a vanity of time.”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“The bowlers, men and women both, were of that pastime’s typical bent—hefty, of a tribal disposition and with themselves well pleased.”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.”
― Joy Williams, Harrow